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c2013., General, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Call No: Fic Bla Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Photographer Clare Porterfield's once-happy marriage is coming apart, unraveling under the strain of a family tragedy. When she receives an invitation to direct an exhibition in her hometown of Galveston, Texas, she jumps at the chance to escape her grief and reconnect with the island she hasn't seen for ten years. There Clare will have the time and space to search for answers about her troubled past and her family's complicated relationship with the wealthy and influential Carraday family. Soon she finds herself drawn into a century-old mystery involving Stella Carraday. Local legend has it that Stella drowned in her family's house during the Great Hurricane of 1900, hanged by her long hair from the drawing room chandelier. Could Stella have been saved? What is the true nature of Clare's family's involvement? The questions grow like the wildflower vines that climb up the walls and fences of the island. And the closer Clare gets to the answers, the darker and more disturbing the truth becomes. Steeped in the rich local history of Galveston, The Drowning House portrays two families, inextricably linked by tragedy and time."--Publisher.
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2011, c2010., Adult, Scribner Call No: Fic Piz Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. Known 'without affection' to members of the boss's crew as 'Big Country' on account of his long hair, beard, and cowboy boots, Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment could be a deathtrap. Which it is. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them, which is to say that after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. Before Roy makes his getaway, he realizes there are two women in the apartment, one of them still breathing, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he goes on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas - an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. The girl's name is Rocky, and she is too young, too tough, too sexy - and far too much trouble. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in the battered seascape of Galveston's country-western bars and fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks, and ashed-out hopes. Any chance that they will find safety there is soon lost. Rocky is a girl with quite a story to tell, one that will pursue and damage Roy for a very long time to come in this powerful and atmospheric thriller..."--Publisher.
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2018., 93, Low Spark Films Call No: DVD Fic Galveston Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After being set up by his boss and killing his would-be assassins, a mob hit man saves a kidnapped young woman and reluctantly takes her with him to Galveston to hide from his boss and outrun the demons from their pasts.
![Galveston [DVD] (2018). Directed by Mélanie Laurent.](/Library/images/~imageCT100132.JPG "Galveston [DVD] (2018). Directed by Mélanie Laurent.")